Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

GlassReset filters
53 results
  • Types of orangery. Coloured engraving.
  • Glass: three views inside a plate glass factory. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.
  • Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.
  • Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. Engraving, after 1861.
  • Chemistry: two types of burning-glass, and a glass-polishing machine. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Glass: three views inside a plate glass factory. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Types of greenhouse. Engraving, 1751.
  • A drunkard with an empty glass; representing the sense of taste. Engraving, 16--.
  • Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for making lead cames. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • A boy cries in pain in his mother's arms while she tries to wash his cut foot, another child holds a broken glass in the background. Coloured lithograph.
  • Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured lithograph.
  • Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
  • Glass: men at work inside a plate glass factory. Engraving, possibly by C. Grignion [?], 1747.
  • Glass: a wire-drawing machine for producing the lead cames used for glazing windows. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Mirrors: a work table and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
  • Christ holds up a glass heart filled with animals (sins) and cures a sick woman with the fluid from the wound in his side. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Schenau.
  • A glass of water against a blue background representing an AIDS awareness advertisement by the Program on AIDS Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a stained-glass window showing Henry VIII. Stipple etching by W. P. Sherlock after himself.
  • Mirrors: a tinted mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Engineering: the Amalgamated Makers' Friendly Society. Engraving by H. Wilkinson after J. Northwood.
  • Glass: the interior of a glass factory, with people at work. Coloured lithograph by P. Bineteau, 1848.
  • Chemistry: distilling apparatus. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.